- Darren Gough
Darren Gough (born September 18 1970, Monk Bretton, Barnsley, Yorkshire) is an English cricketer and captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He has been arguably England's best pace bowler since Bob Willis. He is England's all-time highest wicket taker in one-day internationals with 234, and took 229 wickets in his 58 Test matches, making him England's ninth most successful wicket taker. Gough is a right arm fast medium bowler and right handed batsman.
- Fiona Phillips
Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961, Canterbury) is a journalist & broadcaster. After leaving the University of Birmingham with a B.A. (Hons) in English she started her career in independent radio working for local stations County Sound, Hereward Radio and Radio Mercury. Since 1997, she has been the main presenter on the ITV1 morning show, "GMTV". She has also presented such programmes as "OK!TV", "Loose Women", …
- Jimmy Tarbuck
Jimmy Tarbuck OBE (born 6 February 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire, England) is an English comedian, MC and the father of actress and television presenter Liza Tarbuck, he attended the same school as Beatle John Lennon and newscaster Peter Sissons. His first television show was It's Tarbuck! on ITV in 1964. He has also hosted numerous quiz shows including Winner Takes All, Full Swing and Tarby's Frame Game, …
- Diarmuid Gavin
Diarmuid Gavin (born 10 May 1964) is an Irish garden designer and television personality, based in London. He is married to Justine Keane, daughter of the former Chief Justice of Ireland Ronan Keane and Terry Keane, and they have a daughter named Eppie born December 2004. He received secondary education at Templeogue College, which he recalls as being "horrifying," with the exception of art classes, …
- Matt Dawson
Matthew James Sutherland "Daws" Dawson MBE (born 31 October 1972 in Birkenhead) is a now retired English rugby union footballer who played scrum half for Wasps having played most of his career for Northampton Saints. During his international career he toured with the British and Irish Lions three times and was part of England's 2003 Rugby World Cup winning side. He won 77 caps for his country in total, including nine as captain. He is England’s most capped scrum half.
- Roger Black
Roger Anthony Black MBE (born 31 March 1966) is a former Olympic athlete and now works as a television presenter and motivational speaker. Born in Portsmouth, England, to David (a doctor) and Thelma, with a twin sister Julia, he attended Portsmouth Grammar School, becoming Head Boy in 1983/4. Roger has a collection of fifteen medals from major senior athletics competitions to add to his two European junior championship gold medals.
- Mica Paris
Mica Paris (born Michelle Wallen on April 27 1969 in London, England) is an English singer. She began singing in church at an early age and then went on to become a session singer at the age of 15, for bands such as Hollywood Beyond and Shakatak. In 1988, she released her most successful single, "My One Temptation", which peaked at #7. In the continuing years she went on to release many more singles and albums.
- James Martin
James Martin (born June 30 1972 in Yorkshire) is an English celebrity chef who first appeared on television in 1996.
- Darren Bennett
Darren Bennett (born 14 February 1977, in Sheffield, England) is a professional dancer, as were his parents. With his wife Lilia Kopylova he has a successful career in professional latin dancing, competing nationally and internationally. Darren's favourite dances are the Samba and the Foxtrot.They teach private lessons in their own studio at Sheffield, England. Bennett first met Kopylova after his twin brother Dale, also a dancer, introduced them.
- Carol Vorderman
Carol Jean Vorderman MBE (born 24 December 1960 in Bedford) is an English television personality and mathematician best known for being a long-standing co-presenter of Channel 4 game show "Countdown". She was awarded an MBE in June 2000.
- Christopher Parker
Christopher Parker (born August 24 1983) is an English actor and television presenter.
- Denise Lewis
Denise Lewis OBE (born August 27, 1972, in West Bromwich, England) is a British athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. Her greatest triumph was winning the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
- Brendan Cole
Brendan Cole (born in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a ballroom dancer specialising in Latin American dancing. He has appeared on the BBC show "Strictly Come Dancing", a dance contest in which a professional ballroom dancer is partnered with a celebrity amateur dancer. He has also judged three seasons of New Zealand's own "Dancing with the Stars". He has danced since he was six, and came to the United Kingdom when he was nineteen.
- Colin Jackson
Colin Ray Jackson CBE (born February 18, 1967 in Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh sprint and hurdling athlete of Jamaican and Scottish ancestry, who now works as a sports commentator and television presenter predominantly for the BBC.
- Georgina Bouzova
Georgina Bouzova, LLB, (born 1 June 1976) is an English television actress most famed for her former role as Ellen Zitek in the BBC One medical drama "Casualty". Previously, Bouzova had had a number of minor television roles including in " Doctors", "Mile High" and "Murder in Suburbia". Bouzova was born in Surrey, although she grew up in Manchester with her Czech father Ivan, mother Rita, and younger sister Jessica.
- Natasha Kaplinsky
Natasha Kaplinsky (born 9 September 1972) is a British newsreader, currently working predominantly as a co-presenter of the "BBC Six O'Clock News" with George Alagiah. She is also currently taking part in a trial on BBC One in Birmingham, where she is presenting a special news update, between 60-90 seconds long.
- Martin Offiah
Martin "Chariots" Offiah MBE (born 29 December, 1966 in London, England) is a former English rugby league player. He is also known as 'Chariots' Offiah after the film 'Chariots of Fire', although (contrary to widespread popular belief) the correct pronunciation of his surname is 'Offier' - with the stress on the first syllable. A Londoner, he first played rugby union for Rosslyn Park, before moving to rugby league to join Widnes in the late eighties.
- Lilia Kopylova
Lilia Andreievna Kopylova (born 18 June 1978 in Moscow, Russia) is a professional dancer. With her husband Darren Bennett she has been competing as an amateur since July 1997 and as a professional since May 2003. The couple has achieved considerable success in the Professional Latin style of dancing, both nationally in the UK and internationally.
- Jan Ravens
Jan Ravens (born May 14, 1958 in Bebington, Wirral) is an English actress and impressionist, famous for her voices on "Spitting Image" and "Dead Ringers". She was the first female President of Cambridge University Footlights Club in 1979-1980. She has also appeared on Just A Minute on Radio 4, and Dictionary Corner on Channel 4's "Countdown", even though "Dead Ringers" parodies that same show.
- Aled Jones
Aled Jones (born 29 December 1970) is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality and broadcaster who first came to fame as a boy soprano. He is the only child of Nest and Derek Jones, and was raised in a Welsh-speaking community in the small Anglesey village of Llandegfan, and attended Ysgol David Hughes.
- Dj Spoony
DJ Spoony ("born Jonathan Joseph in 1970 in the London Borough of Hackney ") is a British DJ, and former BBC Radio 1 presenter. Spoony's broadcasting career started on London Underground (a leading pirate radio station in the mid-nineties). he then joined Kiss 100, where he became a member of the "Dreem Teem" with Mikee B and Timmi Magic. The Dreem Team then brought UK garage to Radio1. His weekend breakfast show allowed listeners to join the Early Doors Club, …
- David Dickinson
David Dickinson (born David Gulessarian, 16 August, 1941 in Stockport, Cheshire) is an English antiques expert and television presenter of Armenian ancestry.
- Zoë Ball
Zoë Louise Ball is an English television and radio personality, most famous for becoming the first female host of the prestigious BBC Radio 1 breakfast show.
- Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor ("recte" Denis), born January 19 1949 in Coalisland, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, is a retired snooker player, and current BBC snooker commentator. Taylor is well known for his sense of humour and his trademark over-sized glasses. Winner of two ranking events, he is best known for winning the 1985 World Championship, beating the then seemingly invincible Steve Davis on the final black in one of the sport's greatest finals.
- Emma Bunton
Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Emma is best known for being a member of the successful '90s girl group, Spice Girls. Emma was known as "Baby Spice", in the group, as she was the youngest member, had an "innocent" demeanour, and often wore "baby doll" dresses.
- Will Thorp
Will Thorp (born 21 June 1977 in Bristol) is an English actor. He studied at Bath College and joined Musical Youth Theatre Company at an early age. He was also a member of the National Youth Theatre. His most famous role is flirty paramedic Paul 'Woody' Joyner in "Casualty". He has also done theatre work: roles including Don John & Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (2004), Teddy in Robbers and Sam (Sambo) in Fire Down Under! in 2002.
- Gloria Hunniford
Gloria Hunniford (born 10 April 1940, Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland) is TV and radio presenter, and the mother of the late Caron Keating.
- Julian Clary
Julian Clary (born 25 May, 1959) is an English comedian, who is openly gay and known for his playing-on-stereotypes camp style, with a heavy reliance on innuendo and double entendre.
- Nicholas Owen
Nicholas David Arundel Owen (born 10 February 1947) is an English television news journalist and presenter.
- Siobhan Hayes
Siobhan Hayes (born 1975) is an actress best known for the character of Abi Harper, a dimwitted and clumsy student in the British sitcom "My Family". She played office trainee Sandy in the radio version of "Absolute Power". In 2005 she appeared on the third series of the BBC's prime-time pro-celebrity dancing show, "Strictly Come Dancing", dancing with professional Matthew Cutler. The couple were the first to be eliminated.
- Hanna Haarala
Hanna Haarala, who was born in Finland, is a professional Latin American dancer. Haarala already had a successful career in ice skating, and eventually had to make the choice between them both. She did not foresee this future, however, and thought she would never choose dancing over skating. She has represented Finland with her former partner Mikko Kaasalainen at the European and World Games, but they decided to end their time together three years later.
- Vincent Simone
Vincent Simone is a professional dancer born in Italy but moved to England when he was 16 and has since lived in Guildford, Surrey. His professional dancing partner is Flavia Cacace who he met when they were both taking lessons from the same teacher; they were both looking for partners so they decided to have a try-out together and are still dancing together today. The two also teach dancing lessons for beginners to competitors in their spare time.
- Matthew Cutler
Matthew David Cutler (born October 30, 1973) is a successful English dancer. Born in Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom, he started dancing at the age of eight.
- James Jordan
James Jordan is a successful English dancer. He started dancing quite late, at age 13. His partner is Aleksandra 'Ola' Jordan (nee Grabowska). In November 2006 they were third for Professional Latin in the British National Championships. He's taken part in series four of the BBC's "Strictly Come Dancing", partnering actress Georgina Bouzova.
- Ray Fearon
Ray Fearon (born 1967 in London, England) is a British stage actor. The son of West Indian immigrants, he has seven brothers and sisters, and was a promising junior tennis player in his early teens. Apart from his extensive stage work, he has also played TV and film roles in "Coronation Street" (Nathan Harding) and "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" (Firenze the centaur). He was taught drama by Janet Amsden and at Rose Bruford College.
- Sarah Manners
Sarah Manners (born 25th August 1975 in Birmingham) is a popular English actress best known for her work on British television. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
- Flavia Cacace
Flavia Cacace is a professional dancer. She is originally from Italy and moved to England with her family at aged four. She and her professional dancing partner, Vincent Simone, are two-time world champions at the Argentine Tango. She appeared on the fourth series of the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing. Her celebrity dancing partner for the show was Jimmy Tarbuck.
- Claire Sweeney
Claire Jane Sweeney (born April 17, 1972 in Walton, Liverpool) is an English actress, singer, television personality and presenter who is best known for her role as Lindsey Corkhill in the Channel 4 soap opera "Brookside".
- Jaye Jacobs
Jaye Jacobs (born 27 May 1982 in Street, Somerset, England) is a British actress. She is most famous for her role as comical and fun loving nurse Donna Jackson in the BBC medical drama series "Holby City". In 2005, she appeared on "Strictly Come Dancing". Also played Alice in the soap opera EastEnders. Before her acting career, her previous jobs included modelling shoes and underwear, working in an Indian restaurant, and making and selling jewellery.
- Anton du Beke
Anton du Beke is a professional ballroom dancer. His dance partner is Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003. His reasonably late entry to dancing began at 14, and at 17 decided to specialize in ballroom. He has appeared in all four series of the BBC's "Strictly Come Dancing". In the first series, he danced with singer Lesley Garrett and finished in 3rd place.